Thursday, May 28, 2009

What delhi has done to me so far

May be the 'wise ones' will say that i must ask what i have done for delhi instead of what delhi has done to me. Let me explain from the places i have been to and what i was doing there

I was a confused person from the time i can remember.

I did graduation from Christ college bangalore.What can I say about three years in Christ College, Bangalore…

the sky was blue, the grasses were green, weather was pleasant, there were dustbins( dustbins, becausethis is in stark contrast to Chennai. All indian cities are equally unclean--there can be no clear winner. But what is striking in chennai is its people complacency with uncleanliness and garbage)
and I was in love, and lo, I was a poet…those were the really careless days… careless but not reckless as I’m now…I think the time there was well spent…

Towards the end of the course, I was getting even more reckless..without me actually knowing it…the ambience in the next college I attended only made it worse.

In Chennai i did masters in communication…madras christian college…the college was thoroughly de-motivating for me…the only good thing i learned from thereis the habit of watching good movies and appreciating it.

May be I found the college de-motivating because I came to Chennai de-motivated…but the college was no help for a person like me.

Delhi had shown me in one year what Chennai and Bangalore hasn’t done for six years..To put it simply it changed my idea for hardwork and perfection…

It taught me how much hard work is real hard work.

Meeting with Vinod K Jose was a really a significant one. He didn’t exactly motivate me: simply because I was far from being motivated. I was just fumbling around—with my own notions about journalism.

He showed me what journalism is and what it entails. Delhi helped me to some extent unlearn what my education has so far done for me.

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